Fire escape



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11. A. LEB. PIRE ESCAPE.

No. 261,002: Patentedruly 11, 1882.

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H. A. LEE.

FIRE ESCAPE.

No. 261,002. Patented July 11, 1882. A

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UNITED STATES IAf-rinvii* OFFICE.

HENRY A. LEE, OFNElV YORK, N. Y.

FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 261,002, dated July 11, 1882.

Application filed February 2D, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY A. LEE, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fire-Escapes, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to that class of tireescapes which severally consist of a post secured to the exterior of a building at such distance therefrom that persons may conveniently slide down it. Such posts are necessarily composed of sections; and my improvement consists in novel combinations, with the sectional post, of devices which connect the sections together and connect the post to the building of post, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section of the post and top view of one of the anges or rings of the kind shown in Figs. l and 2.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures.

A designates one of the walls of a building. B designates windows in the same, and G designates the window-sills.

D designates a post, which may be made of any suitable material; and E designates crosspieces which connect the post with the building. This post may be made of sections of pipe a, connected together by T-shaped couplings b, which also secure the sections to the Vcross-pieces. In this case the cross-pieces may of service to burglars.

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circumferentially corrugated to retard the descent.

Persons whose escape by the stairways of a burning building is cut off can step out on a window-sill and grasp and slide down the post.

The post, when made of sections of pipe, may be utilized for conveying waste-water from the building to which the post is applied or for conducting to the building water for aiding in extinguishing a lire. The cross-pieces will in these cases enter the building. The post need extend only to within ten or twelve feet of the ground, as persons descending the post can without danger drop that distance to `the ground. It will thus be prevented frombeing For the same reason it need not extend to the roof. It may be connected at each end to the building, and an ordinary tin leader-pipe, P, may extend from it to the ground. Where, however, it is designed to have the additional function of a water-pipe, it may, if desirable, extend nearer to the ground.

The cross-pieces not only support the post,

but keep it at such distance from the wall of the building as to make it more available and safe as a means of escape. They may be arranged outwardly ascending at an angle to euhance their strength.

In Fig. 3 I have shown one of the sockets b' as provided with an elliptical flange, d, and another of the sockets b as provided with arms or bars d'. Hand ropes or rods of suitable non-combustible material are placed through openings in the flange d and the arms or bar d, and serve to facilitate the descent yof persons along the post. The post is the support of these hand ropes or rods, as here shown; but they may be. independently connected to the building on which the post is used.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a building, of a post made in sections, T- shaped couplings in which the adjacent ends of said sections are secured, cross-pieces also secured in said couplings and connecting the post with the exterior of the building at such distance therefrom that persons may slide down it, and llanges or like devices attached to the post, between said couplings, to serve as steps or resting-places, substantially as specified.

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couplings b, connecting said sections, the crosspicces E, also secured in said couplings and connecting the post with the building, and the x 5 couplings or sockets b', secured upon the post intermedietely between the couplings b, and provided with flanges or rings d, substantially as specified.

HENRY A. LEE.

Witnesses:

T. J. KEANE, J AMES R. BOWEN. 

